hunger strike: Nearly 80 detainees at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario ended a hunger strike over the weekend that was initiated last Thursday April 21, according to Rabble. The strike had been an effort to draw attention to indefinite immigration detention and recent inmate deaths. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. The detainees -- all racialized, undocumented men -- have two main demands: end immigration detention and "end indefinite and maximum security imprisonment, overhaul the judicial review process, and improve prisons conditions." According to the End Immigration Detention Network, the strike concluded after the Canadian Border Services Agency promised to provide updates and answers to these issues in two weeks. The most recent death, which occurred on March 13 2016, was of Francisco Javier Romero Astorga, a 39-year-old Chilean father of four. There have been at least 13 deaths in Canadian immigration detention since 2000 -- most of which have had minimal explanation or understanding.
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